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Carnival Cruise Line Honors Top Travel Agencies With ‘Excellence Awards’
FourthAnnual Awards Honor Agents for Outstanding Leadership in 12 categories,including the Prestigious ‘Ted Arison Founder's Award'and new ‘Chairman'sAward'
MIAMI(July 25, 2017) – Carnival Cruise Line is honoring 12 top travel agencies inthe U.S. and Canada with its fourth annual Excellence Awards. The 12 awardcategories recognize the diversity of agencies the line works with by honoringspecialties including retail, online, charter, incentive, host, franchise, andregional performance excellence.
"It'salways difficult to choose just 12 award recipients given the breadth oftalent, dedication, and innovation we see from the travel agent community,"said Carnival's Vice President of Sales & Trade Marketing Adolfo Perez."It's a true honor to bring these award winners together and to celebrate theirsuccess as market leaders."
Cruise Planners was selected for this year's "Ted Arison Founder's Award,"which is named for the late Ted Arison, Carnival Cruise Line's founder. Thisaward honors a travel partner who consistently demonstrates tremendouspartnership, loyalty and support for the Carnival brand and upholds TedArison's vision that everyone deserves a great cruise vacation. "Thededication, creativity, and unique business model of Cruise Planners make theorganization stand out among its peers and its continuous growth and commitmentto Carnival made it a natural choice to win this prestigious award," saidPerez. "We would also like to acknowledge last year's inaugural winner, WorldTravel Holdings, for continuing to be an outstanding brand champion andvisionary leader."
Additionally,Expedia Inc. has been named as the recipient of the inaugural "Chairman'sAward," which honors a travel partner who has demonstrated unique strategicvision and business results to create a leadership position with Carnival andin the industry overall. "We are proud to honor Expedia Inc. as the firstwinner of this award," said Perez. "The group exceeds in technologicalinnovation and multiple successful business models that include online as wellas retail franchise excellence."
All Excellence Award winning agencies were selected by Carnival's sales teambased on a variety of strengths including sales effectiveness, innovativemarketing techniques, brand advocacy, and demonstrated leadership in theircategory.
A Carnival sales leadership panel, led by Perez, evaluated numerous submissionsfrom the sales team to select 12 Excellence Awards recipients based on thenominees' strengths.
Carnival's 2017 Excellence Award recipients include:
Ted Arison Founder's Award:Cruise Planners, An American Express Representative
Chairman's Award:Expedia Inc.
Excellence Award - RisingTravel Partner: TRAVELSAVERS
Excellence Award - Charters: RoseTours
Excellence Award – CorporateIncentive: Landry & Kling GlobalCruise Events
Excellence Award – FranchiseAgency Network: Dream Vacations, CruiseOne& Cruises Inc.
Excellence Award– Host AgencyNetwork: KHM Travel Group
Excellence Award– Online TravelPartner: Vacations To Go
Excellence Award– Retail: AAATravel
Excellence Award– EasternRegion: Tourico Holidays
Excellence Award– WesternRegion: Savon Resorts
Excellence Award– Northern U.S.& Canada: Cruises Etc.
Thisyear's honorees and their guests will attend an "Excellence Awards" celebrationin Vail, Colorado August 16-17, 2017, with complimentary airfare and hotelaccommodations. Various events will be hosted by Carnival's leadership teamincluding a welcome party and a gala awards reception with dinner and dancing.
Additional information regarding the awards is available on the line's travelagent Internet portal, GoCCL.com.
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About Carnival Cruise Line
CarnivalCruise Line, part of Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK),is "The World's Most Popular Cruise Line®" with 25 ships operatingthree- to 16-day voyages to The Bahamas, Caribbean, Mexican Riviera, Alaska,Hawaii, Canada, New England, Bermuda, Europe, Cuba, Australia, New Zealand andthe Pacific Islands. Two 133,500-ton Vista class ships are currently scheduledfor delivery - Carnival Horizon in 2018 and an as-yet-unnamed vessel in 2019.Additionally, two new 180,000-ton ships are scheduled to enter service in 2020and 2022.
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